Jessika Ponchet

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Jessika Ponchet
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Ponchet at the 2021 Open de Limoges
Country (sports) France
ResidenceAngresse, France
Born (1996-09-26) 26 September 1996 (age 25)
Bayonne, France
Turned pro2011
PlaysRight-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize moneyUS$ 498,998
Singles
Career record233–164 (58.7%)
Career titles6 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 169 (22 July 2019)
Current rankingNo. 204 (6 December 2021)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open1R (2018, 2019)
French Open1R (2018, 2019)
WimbledonQ2 (2019)
US OpenQ1 (2018, 2019, 2021)
Doubles
Career record101–90 (52.9%)
Career titles10 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 148 (8 November 2021)
Current rankingNo. 152 (6 December 2021)
Grand Slam Doubles results
French Open1R (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021)
Last updated on: 10 December 2021.

Jessika Ponchet (born 26 September 1996) is a French professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of 169 in singles (attained on 22 July 2019), and 148 in doubles (achieved on 8 November 2021).

Career[]

Ponchet did not play any ITF Junior Circuit tournaments, plunging straight into the ITF Women's Circuit at the age of 14.[1]

2011–2013[]

Ponchet played the singles events of four tournaments and the doubles event of one tournament on the 2011 ITF Circuit, starting with a $100k tournament held in early July in the French city of Biarritz. She played a total of 11 and 18 ITF tournaments in 2012 and 2013, respectively.[2]

2014–2015[]

Ponchet played a total of 17 ITF tournaments in 2014. She suffered a major setback when torn knee ligaments forced her to miss tournaments in the first eight months of 2015. She played the singles events of seven tournaments and the doubles event of one tournament on the 2015 ITF Circuit.[1][2]

2016[]

Ponchet played a total of 22 ITF tournaments in the 2016 season.[2]

2017[]

She made her Grand Slam singles debut at the French Open after receiving a qualifying wildcard; however, after defeating Dalma Gálfi (the 2015 ITF World Champion in the girls' combined category), she lost to the No. 4 seed Richèl Hogenkamp in the second round.[2][3]

Ponchet made her WTA 125K series debut at the Open de Limoges, entering only its singles event. She received a wildcard for the main draw, where she defeated her compatriot Chloé Paquet in the first round and lost to the No. 7 seed Kaia Kanepi in the second.[2][3]

Ponchet finished 2017 with a final win/loss record of 42–24 for singles matches.[1]

2018[]

She made her Grand Slam and WTA Tour singles main-draw debut at the Australian Open after receiving a wildcard for the main draw,[4] where she lost in the first round to the No. 3 seed Garbiñe Muguruza. Prior to the Australian Open, Ponchet had in her entire career played in the singles main-draw event of just one tournament that was at a higher level than the ITF Women's Circuit (the 2017 Open de Limoges) and had never even faced a player ranked in the top 100 of WTA singles rankings.[5]

Ponchet made French Open debut after receiving a wildcard for the singles main draw, where she lost in the first round to the unseeded Lucie Šafářová, in straight sets.

2019[]

At the Australian Open, Ponchet reached the singles main draw where she lost in the first round to 19th-seeded Caroline Garcia, after winning all her three qualifying matches without dropping a set.

On 9 April, in her first-round match of the $25k tournament in Sunderland, Ponchet was leading Tara Moore 6–0, 5–0 and had a match point to achieve a double bagel, but Moore staged a comeback to win 0–6, 7–6, 6–3.[6]

Grand Slam singles performance timeline[]

Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# P# DNQ A Z# PO G F-S SF-B NMS P NH
(W) Won; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (F-S) silver or (SF-B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; a (NMS) downgraded Masters Series/1000 tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held. SR=strike rate (events won/competed)
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.
Tournament 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 SR W–L Win %
Australian Open A 1R 1R Q1 A 0 / 2 0–2 0%
French Open Q2 1R 1R Q1 A 0 / 2 0–2 0%
Wimbledon A A Q2 A Q1 0 / 0 0–0 –
US Open A Q1 Q1 A Q1 0 / 0 0–0 –
Win–Loss 0–0 0–2 0–2 0–0 0–0 0 / 4 0–4 0%

WTA 125 finals[]

Doubles: 2 (2 runner-ups)[]

Result W–L    Date    Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 0–1 Feb 2020 WTA 125 Newport Beach, United States Hard Belgium Marie Benoît United States Hayley Carter
Brazil Luisa Stefani 		1–6, 3–6
Loss 0–2 Dec 2021 WTA 125 Limoges, France Hard (i) France Estelle Cascino Romania Monica Niculescu
Russia Vera Zvonareva 		4–6, 4–6

ITF Circuit finals[]

Singles: 11 (6 titles, 5 runner–ups)[]

Legend
$100,000 tournaments
$80,000 tournaments
$60,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments
Finals by surface
Hard (4–4)
Clay (2–1)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0–1 Oct 2015 ITF Port El Kantaoui, Tunisia 10,000 Hard Ukraine Valeriya Strakhova 2–6, 3–6
Loss 0–2 May 2016 ITF Monzón, Spain 10,000 Hard Czech Republic Marie Bouzková 4–6, 4–6
Win 1–2 Jul 2016 ITF Getxo, Spain 10,000 Clay Romania Ioana Loredana Roșca 4–6, 6–2, 6–1
Win 2–2 Jul 2016 ITF El Espinar, Spain 10,000 Hard Spain Rocío de la Torre Sánchez 6–4, 6–2
Loss 2–3 Nov 2016 ITF Vinaròs, Spain 10,000 Clay Venezuela Andrea Gamiz 6–1, 1–6, 4–6
Win 3–3 Nov 2016 ITF Benicarló, Spain 10,000 Clay United Kingdom Amanda Carreras 6–0, 7–6(6)
Win 4–3 Jul 2018 ITF Figueira da Foz, Portugal 25,000 Hard Spain Eva Guerrero Álvarez 7–6(4), 6–2
Win 5–3 Feb 2019 ITF Glasgow, UK 25,000 Hard (i) Georgia (country) Mariam Bolkvadze 6–3, 6–1
Loss 5–4 Mar 2020 ITF Mâcon, France 25,000 Hard (i) France Océane Dodin 6–3, 1–6, 3–6
Loss 5–5 Jun 2021 ITF Figueira da Foz, Portugal 25,000 Hard France Tessah Andrianjafitrimo 7–6(3), 1–6, 0–6
Win 6–5 Sep 2021 ITF Leiria, Portugal 25,000 Hard Finland Anastasia Kulikova 7–6(3), 6–0

Doubles: 15 (10 titles, 5 runner–ups)[]

Legend
$100,000 tournaments
$80,000 tournaments
$60,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$15,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments
Finals by surface
Hard (6–2)
Clay (4–2)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–1)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1–0 Mar 2014 ITF Gonesse, France 10,000 Clay (i) Czech Republic Karolína Stuchlá Germany Carolin Daniels
Germany Lena-Marie Hofmann 		6–7(4), 6–3, [10–3]
Win 2–0 Jun 2016 ITF Madrid, Spain 10,000 Clay Russia Marina Shamayko Spain Ainhoa Atucha Gómez
Spain María José Luque Moreno 		6–2, 6–3
Loss 2–1 Jul 2016 ITF Getxo, Spain 10,000 Clay Argentina Carla Lucero Ukraine Oleksandra Korashvili
Romania Ioana Loredana Roșca 		0–6, 3–6
Loss 2–2 Jul 2016 ITF El Espinar, Spain 10,000 Hard Romania Ioana Loredana Roșca Ecuador Charlotte Roemer
Germany Sarah-Rebecca Sekulic 		2–6, 6–7(4)
Win 3–2 Dec 2016 ITF Castellón de la Plana, Spain 10,000 Clay Brazil Laura Pigossi Spain Arabela Fernández Rabener
Australia Isabelle Wallace 		6–1, 6–3
Loss 3–3 Apr 2017 ITF Hammamet, Tunisia 15,000 Clay France Manon Arcangioli Brazil Gabriela Cé
Venezuela Andrea Gamiz 		1–6, 2–6
Loss 3–4 Apr 2018 ITF Óbidos, Portugal 25,000 Carpet Ukraine Ganna Poznikhirenko United Kingdom Sarah Beth Grey
United Kingdom Olivia Nicholls 		2–6, 1–6
Loss 3–5 Jul 2018 ITF Figueira da Foz, Portugal 25,000 Hard Belarus Sviatlana Pirazhenka Spain Yvonne Cavallé Reimers
Venezuela Andrea Gamiz 		2–6, 5–7
Win 4–5 May 2019 ITF Les Franqueses del Vallès,
Spain 		60,000 Hard United Kingdom Eden Silva United Kingdom Jodie Burrage
United Kingdom Olivia Nicholls 		6–3, 6–4
Win 5–5 Aug 2019 ITF Lexington,
United States 		60,000 Hard United States Robin Anderson United States Ann Li
United States Jamie Loeb 		7–6(4), 6–7(5), [10–7]
Win 6–5 Sep 2019 ITF Caldas da Rainha, Portugal 60,000 Hard Bulgaria Isabella Shinikova Kazakhstan Anna Danilina
Germany Vivian Heisen 		6–1, 6–3
Win 7–5 Nov 2019 ITF Toronto, Canada 60,000 Hard (i) United States Robin Anderson Canada Mélodie Collard
Canada Leylah Annie Fernandez 		7–6(7), 6–2
Win 8–5 Oct 2020 ITF Cherbourg-en-Cotentin,
France 		25,000 Hard (i) United States Robin Anderson United Kingdom Harriet Dart
United Kingdom Sarah Beth Grey 		4–6, 6–4, [10–8]
Win 9–5 May 2021 ITF Saint-Gaudens, France 60,000 Clay France Estelle Cascino United Kingdom Eden Silva
Belgium Kimberley Zimmermann 		0–6, 7–5, [10–7]
Win 10–5 Nov 2021 ITF Nantes, France 60,000 Hard (i) United Kingdom Samantha Murray United Kingdom Alicia Barnett
United Kingdom Olivia Nicholls 		6–4, 6–2

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "Getting to know you: Introducing Melbourne's Grand Slam debutantes". 14 January 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d e "ITF profile of Jessika Ponchet". ITF.
  3. ^ a b "Jessika Ponchet WTA website". WTA Tour official website.
  4. ^ "Open d'Australie : Des wild cards pour Corentin Moutet et Jessika Ponchet". Eurosport. 8 December 2017.
  5. ^ "Muguruza made to work by Ponchet for Melbourne win". WTA Tour official website. 16 January 2018.
  6. ^ "Tara Moore saves match point at 0–6 0–5 down before beating Jessika Ponchet". 9 April 2019 – via www.bbc.co.uk.

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